Home With YSL

THE famed Paris apartment of late designer Yves Saint Laurent was this week put on the market by his partner Pierre Berge, with an asking price of €23.5 million.

The prestigious property located in the heart of the Faubourg Saint-Germain district became home to Saint Laurent and Berge in 1970, and they bought the apartment eight years later. It was love at first sight for the legendary designer: "The door opened, and right in front of me there was a window overlooking the garden" he told Vogue Decoration in 1986, "And that was that."

The 11-room duplex - covering 5,600 square-feet and including a Grand Salon, Music room and Treasure room - housed the design duo's impressive art and furniture collection, which broke records last year at Christie's Sale of the Century.

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Yves Saint Laurent's celebrated aesthetic is evident throughout the interior: from the imposing entrance of red lacquered walls and gold leafed oval ceiling, inspired by the label's famous Opium fragrance, to his bedroom suite of aquatic blues, created by renowned French decorator and long-standing friend to the designer Jacques Grange.

"The interiors have very beautiful proportions," Grange told the New York Times. "I understood why Yves took it in five minutes. It really was meant for him."